Abstract: In this presentation, I draw on the images of the eminent 20th-century photographer André Kertész (1894-1985) to consider the aesthetic encounter with photographs. I argue that Kertész's images work implicitly to illustrate visually the concepts of perception and body-subject delineated by phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. I contend that, through facilitating in the viewer a momentary puzzlement in what an image seems to be, some Kertész photographs illuminate Merleau-Ponty's perception-the immediate, normally unnoticed givenness of the world founded in pre-conscious, bodily sensibility. In presenting people's bodily regularities and intercorporeal co-presence grounded in specific places and environmental settings, other Kertész photographs illustrate visually Merleau-Ponty's body schema, or body-subject-pre-reflective corporeal awareness manifested through action and typically in sync with the physical world at hand. I suggest that photographs and other visual media may be one useful vehicle for explaining phenomenological concepts and principles often difficult to understand, especially for beginners in phenomenology.